Reading in the Garden

Surviving Evil. We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter is a book that will grip you and won’t let you go until the last page. It’s the story of the Jewish Kurc family and their odyssey during WWII. After extensive research, the author masterfully wrote about the true lives of her family members’ fight for survival during one of the most horrific times in history, the Holocaust. Georgia Hunter effortlessly and beautifully melds together a lesson in history with an eye-opening raw tale of endurance. This book grabbed and squeezed my heart so hard, at times I almost found it hard to breathe. Each page kept me reaching for the next to see what would happen. You may have learned about the atrocities of the Holocaust in school, how millions of Jews were exterminated in an unfathomable genocide, but unlike history books We Were the Lucky Ones brings you right into the lives, minds, and hearts of a Jewish family who lived through it. It’s an important book that should be widely read, s...